Recent content by stuckatwork

Thanks guys, Yeah, it's total mush and I'm embarassed to show it to people I know, but I just hope she'll appreciate it. She's a musician too, so I just want to make sure there are no pops, clicks out of tune vox, and other stuff I missed. Sadest part is I mean it all. When did I go from...

Hey, I wrote this song for my ex-girlfriend/maybe gonna be girlfriend again for christmas. She's in the Camen Islands so I haven't been able to give it to her yet, but I wanted to get some feedback to see if there's anything I missed or could do differently, to make the song better. They...

Hey everyone, I'm in a band up in Seattle and I'm completely stumped on comming up with a plan to build a fanbase. We're a fairly new band palyed about 10 shows, just finishing up our CD but when we finally get it finished we've got no one to sell too. We've been playing to empty houses...

Buy a cheap mixing board with preamps. You might be able to get a decent live mix until you can pick up a multitracker, and you can always use a board.

Try soundclick.com, they've been very cool to me and you can post for free.

Stonepiano, I agree, there's a point a which the price becomes too high and will reflect negatively with the consumer. I think in Nick's case $8-10 is not to much to ask for a resonably well recorded CD with 13 songs(see disclaimer). That's less then a $1 a song which is still a pretty good...

I don't know Nick. I had this discussion a few weeks ago with my other band members and they seem to agree. I think giving your CD a higher precieved value is very important. An example, if I go to a show and bands give out a CD for free I would think the band was desperate for people to...

The beans... Ok let me know if you want anything specific but here goes. We've got two guitars in the band, me and or other guitarist. I'm playing a gibson explorer through an ADA MP-1 preamp into a highly modded fender twin then into a marshall 4X12. I think on plastic smile the other guitar...

Thanks, again guys. Wes: Yeah, we are in the process of shopping for management right now. We've got a couple of prospects that are really interested in checking us out. It's interesting that each company has their own style of managing. One was really interested in national tours with...

Thanks, for the comments. you've all been extreamly helpful. I really did some listening and I don't think the vox are too quiet on the waves I've got. I listened on 5 different stereos and they were all pretty close. I'm going to boost the vox a db or two anyways just to be on the safe side...

Thank you so much everyone! It's cool to hear good things. I've been lurking around here for about a year now and this forum is really a cool thing. Chrisharris: I had to make some compromises on the high end, I was really walking a fine line between gloss and harsh. We've got 8 more...

Thanks everyone. I thought I'd get a lot more criticism. Could anyone be a little more specific on the vox on Plastic Smile. That one turned out the worst out of the three, I'm going to re-sing the vox for the final CD. Kramer, we recorded the demo in my drummer's basement with about $4000...

Hey Everybody, I just finished up my bands 3 song demo and these songs are going to eventually migrate on to our CD. I'm the guitar player/ singer/ studio bass player/ primary sound engineer/ mixer/master... blah blah blah you get the idea. Anyways, I've heard these songs more times then I'd...

Littledog, You may be onto something! Q metric is a stereo EQ and I'm running it through an insert on the track so I can compare the effected master to other songs. I probably should be running it through the master effects. I would think that the insert on a stereo track should be a...

Hey every one, I'm just finishing up 3 songs for a demo and I'm getting some wierd effects going on when I add eq during the mastering stage. I was wondering if anyone could shed some light on this. I'm using stienberg's q-metric and when I add it on and reduce some of the high end I get a...